From: Richard Dobson ()
Date: May 14, 2008
Subject:
Re: Cognitive Daily - major vs minor
Peter Castine wrote:
>
> But Plato affirms that Mixolydian will make men sad and grave, whereas
> Dorian will inspire enthusiasm. Phrygian, IMS, was sensuous.
>
> Who am I to argue with the author of The Republic?
>
> The survey in Cognitive Daily is unfortunately Euro-centric, ignoring
> rÄga and other emotionally charged pitch-class sets, never mind the
> effects of tempo, instrumentation, style, delivery, and everything else.
> Of course the survey is fatally flawed from a musical perspective.
> Nevertheless, the loci of neural activity make an interesting phenomenon.
>
We will have to say that such things are ~very~ context-sensitive; which
is where most often a simply-applied scientific method breaks down.
Richard Dobson